Stumbled on this and played with it, but didn’t think it would be so funny, or so just in the end.
Congratulations on being the creator of a new Evil Plan (tm)!
Your objective is simple: World Domination.
Your motive is [...]
Stumbled on this and played with it, but didn’t think it would be so funny, or so just in the end.
Congratulations on being the creator of a new Evil Plan (tm)!
Your objective is simple: World Domination.
Your motive is [...]
You are perfect in a completely damaged kind of way…just the way I want and need.
—My Guy
One thing I hate about the holidays is that it points up the separateness of families after divorce.
In our home, in our family, in our divorce, we’ve emphasized the family unit as something immutable, something permanent and indestructible. Moms and Dads may divorce, they may split one unhappy household into [...]
Sitting on the deck at My Guy’s tonight… it’s odd. I’ve been here two days now doing my Fran Dresher thing (complete with botching one of the kids’ appointments showing up late to pick him up) and I’m noticing things that have been below the RADAR before now.
For one [...]
These are the days it takes the entire family to pull together…
It’s my ex-husband’s birthday today, and the family tradition for as long as we’ve had kids has been to go out for a big sushi dinner. So, today when I picked up the kids, they were fired up for [...]
I did a segment with ABC News about having fun doing homework with tweens, which is sort of like asking me to enjoy having Bugs Bunny teach me the quadratic formula. It’s eight minutes long, and I come in right at the end so if you want to see what [...]
Daughter: Okay, okay, I didn’t really take a bath, I just rinsed my hair and brushed it.”
Son: “That is not delightful.”
[...]Kids have been back with me one day after being with their dad for five, and I am ready to strangle them already. Which is SO WRONG, considering they are about to leave over Thanksgiving for eight days, be back with me for two, and then I go to Thailand [...]
My Guy and I are heading to an 80’s party for my friend’s 40th birthday, and I just couldn’t bear to tease my hair and go all Belinda Carlisle, so I followed a friend’s advice and I’m now going as one of the Palmer girls from the [...]
DISCLAIMER: I did not let my daughter watch Kill Bill with me! She came in at the very last scene, and when I went to turn it off, she said, no, I want see the swordfight. It was a very stylized, elegant scene, until the part where they each got [...]
Logan was home sick again today and wound up at my house for a couple of hours. When it was time for me to head out on my date, I said collect yer things, we’re taking off.
He came to find me in the bathroom. “Mom, stop. We’re just going [...]
I spoke to my elderly aunt last evening—well, I left a couple messages and she asked a friend to call because it was too much effort for her—and I got to thinking about the people in my life, and all the people in every one of your lives too. Truth.
Ever [...]
To My Guy,
I was thinking this morning about what you said about broadening horizons, and realized that that is what I have been trying to put my finger on all this time. You and I are both worldly, canny, intelligent and sophisticated people who have pushed our own boundaries our [...]
Healthcare Technology News reports on a bit of harmonization in “Guerilla Music at the AHIP Conference.”
“On Friday October 23, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) met in the aftermath of a tumultuous month in which the [...]
Just came to the startling realization that my sons ALWAYS put the toilet seat down. You’re welcome, Future Girlfriends and Wives.
[...]Doing Internet TV with Momversation.com has been, hands down, the most exciting project I’ve worked on in my seven—almost eight—years of doing this. It’s my favorite community, and I get to work with the most astounding people every single week. Some days, it’s literally what gets me out of bed [...]
Is there anything funnier than listening from the other room while your children try to guess your computer password? I don’t think so.
It is the only time they have been quiet since they got home, ostensibly to “let me rest” by the fireplace because I still look like a zombie [...]
Motherlode: Adventures in Parenting: Life as a Depressed Parent
By Lisa Belkin
Over at the Momversation this week, Heather Armstrong of Dooce.com is leading a candid talk about depression. She has been extremely open over the years about the postpartum emotional crash that led her to a psychiatric [...]
My son’s den leader sent out a note yesterday asking that the boys contribute part of their Halloween candy to the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, as part of the Citizenship badge, they will be writing letters and making drawings to send to the troops, and the boys [...]
As of tonight, I’m back at about 78% capacity, so let’s talk about depression. Why not? I’m sure I wouldn’t feel great about it were I at full capacity, but ten days of swine flu has done a number on me. In that way the latest episode of [...]
Well, Internets, I have the Swine flu.
Please, Whoever is Messing With My Life, it’s not funny. Cut it out.
The last week has been hazy, with the exception of yesterday’s highly memorable trip to the walk-in clinic for screening, at the end of which I was curled up in a ball, [...]
